Dinner · 10 min · Amounts not specified
Cinnamon oats
Cinnamon into the dry oats, not sprinkled on top. Salt the pot, and loosen it at the table because oats set solid in the bowl.
The sheet · 1 bowl · 10 min
easyWhy tonight. Cinnamon into the dry oats, not sprinkled on top. Salt the pot, and loosen it at the table because oats set solid in the bowl.
What it needs
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- oats
- milk
- cinnamon
- honey
Method
- Cinnamon into the dry oats before the milk. It disperses; sprinkled on top afterwards it clumps and floats.
- Milk, low heat, salt, stirred. Ten minutes for rolled oats and no shortcuts that involve high heat.
- Honey at the end, off the heat, so it stays sweet rather than cooking flat.
- Loosen with more milk at the table. Oats keep thickening in the bowl and set solid within minutes.
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- oats
- Starch that thickens whatever it is in.
- milk
- Softness and a little sweetness.
- cinnamon
- Warm and sweet-smelling without being sweet, which is why it works in a stew as readily as in a pastry.
- honey
- Sweetness with a floral edge and enough body to change the texture of what it is in.
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